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Your Democracy Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 06:30 Source

The US must be told that we will not be involved in any way and at any time in a war with China over Taiwan.

Trump is pressing US allies to increase their defence expenditure. Anthony Albanese has wisely responded that the Australian Government will decide how much we spend on defence, and not the US.

 

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Your Democracy Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 05:55 Source

Another possible surrogate for the control of potential enemies of society is the reintroduction, in some form consistent with modern technology and political processes, of slavery. Up to now, this has been suggested only in fiction, notably in the works of Wells, Huxley, Orwell, and others engaged in the imaginative anticipation of the sociology of the future.

 

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MacroBusiness Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 00:05 Source

RIO’s treason mine has been brought forward again. Pilbara iron ore achieved its highest Q2 production since 2018, recovering well from Q1 extreme weather impacts. Simandou first shipment accelerated to around November 2025, with 0.5 to 1.0 Mt of shipments expected in 2025 (SimFer scope from Blocks 3 & 4). Continued progress with our Iron

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THE BLOT REPORT Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 23:20 Source

Most people have been appalled or sickened by the images coming from Gaza, of flattened cities, rows of shrouded corpses, dead or dismembered children, mangled babies, emaciated children, lists of journalists and health-workers targeted. In the western world, people have been demonstrating in their many thousands against this genocide in Gaza. So what do governments do? They are more concerned with placating Israel and stopping the protests than stopping the genocide, even to the point of criminalised protesting1. 

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Your Democracy Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 21:47 Source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDjpLhCPI0

Press Sec’s SHOCKING NEW LOOK Sparks Epstein Questions!

 

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 16:00 Source

Risk markets continue to weigh up last night’s US CPI print with tariff inflation beginning to hit the US domestic economy, with the Fed likely to hold instead of cut for the rest of the year. More “frameworks” and “thinkings about deals, maybe” are being announced by the Trump regime as US Treasury yields drift

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 14:00 Source

After experiencing a reprieve last year, the latest net permanent and long-term arrivals data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) suggests that net overseas migration (NOM) has surged back in 2025. There were 1,128,480 permanent and long-term arrivals in the year to May, offset by 680,860 departures, with both tracking at close to a

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 13:30 Source

As we know, Australia hates Donald Trump in part because of his stance on climate change. What most Australians don’t know, however, is that the US has done a much better job of decarbonising itself cheaply than we have. The recent change has been part of the post-COVID recovery. While the US has rehabilitated industry,

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 13:00 Source

I am ideologically opposed to taxpayer-funded subsidies for private car transportation. Most of these subsidies go to higher-income earners. Thus, they are a prime illustration of the reverse Robin Hood phenomenon, in which the rich benefit at the expense of the poor. Electric vehicle (EV) subsidies are extremely expensive and inequitable, worsening the long-term sustainability

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 12:30 Source

The groveller-in-chief will grovel. China Daily, a state media outlet, trumpeted the unusual length of Albanese’s visit (six days) and claimed the prime minister’s office saw the trip as a “friendly gesture” made “against the backdrop of rising tensions between the United States and many countries”. …Earlier in the day, TV journalists at the Drum

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Your Democracy Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 12:01 Source

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